To many lines in this file

[calgrdnr]

I am trying to make my first Lithophane on a 2001 48x96 shopbot software version 3.4.27, I get this error

You have to many lines in this file! ( limit =1000000) is there a way to increase this limit ?


I have tried both PVC and Aspire to get this to work toolpath ranges from 47-54 meg

please advise .. I need to cut this ASAP before Vegas Vectric User meeting.

thanks Kent

[tmerrill]

Kent,

Just gave you a few ideas on the Vectric forum - you can use the Tile Toolpath feature or modify your post processor and add the Tape Splitting command.

Tim

[calgrdnr]

Tim

Tag your it

where would I find info on the tape splitting feature ? I searched shopbot and got your reply to my OP

[tmerrill]

It is explained in the Post Processor Editing guide on the Vectric forum:

http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6213

Also had a couple of other ideas and posted them on the Vectric site.

Tim

[bleeth]

What size is your Litho and what is your cutting strategy and bit size? That is a lot of lines and will take a very long time to cut.
Download current SB3 software-Maybe it takes more code lines.

[tmerrill]

He can't upgrade to the latest ShopBot software unless the 4G upgrade is installed.

If the Programming Handbook for the OpenSBP Language is correct there is a software limit of 1 million lines.

Tim

[bleeth]

Correct regarding 4G Tim. Thanks for the qualification. Still interested in size of Litho and toolpath settings/bit. I've cut some pretty large full reliefs in the older software without coming near that limit.

[tmerrill]

Interesting, I just created a sbp file with 1080000 lines and the latest version of the ShopBot Previewer accepted it without error. The results of the simulation looked as expected.

I guess it will take ShopBot to tell us what limitations currently exist, if any.

Tim

[Gary Campbell]

Tim...
The million line restriction has been removed in newer versions of the software. It will however, be forever present in the 3.4.xx versions. Yet another reason to upgrade.

[calgrdnr]

Thanks for all the information and help guys.
Looks like I need to upgrade the controller I new I was going to be doing this when I bought it. Just haven't figured out which way I want to go .


Dave I use a 30degree vbit that I tell the software it is a 0.03125 ballnose,
I have cut quite a few with this method but was using Mach3 as my controller on my Joes2006 CNC. It would of cut this file in 4 hours or so. 5x7 size

I cropped and manipulated the Photo to enlarge the faces and remove the background details so I could use larger bit 0.0625 increased the size to 9x7 software with old settings scale at 1.4 predicted 02:39:29
It actually took 6 hours will have to adjust the scale to 3+

The control PC is only a 1,2 gig with 256 mb memory . I will swap it out today with 2.4gig and at least 1gig memory. hopefully I can get some speed with that until I upgrade .

Thanks again for all the help

Kent